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The completion of soil remediation at the East Tennessee Technology Park is the culmination of 20 years of cleanup at the site which was once home to Manhattan Project and Cold War-era uranium enrichment facilities. The remaining federally owned parcels of land at the site can now be transferred to the community.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 05 September 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Cleanup-milestone-for-East-Tennessee-site
The lower section of the reactor vessel of the Oak Ridge Research Reactor has been removed and transferred to a cask for eventual shipment and disposal. The reactor was an isotope production and irradiation facility from 1958 and was permanently shut down in July 1987.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 16 August 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Decommissioning-milestone-at-Oak-Ridge-reactor
The Low Intensity Test Reactor, known as Building 3005, was built in 1949 as a criticality testing facility that used highly enriched fuel with water as a coolant, and operated until 1968 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the USA.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 08 May 2024
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Clean-up-completed-of-70-year-old-Oak-Ridge-site-r
NorthStar Group Services has removed the Vallecitos boiling water reactor (VBWR) from the GEH Vallecitos Nuclear Centre in California and has delivered it for disposal to the Texas facility of its affiliate, Waste Control Specialists (WCS). The privately owned VBWR operated from 1957 to 1963 at the Vallecitos Nuclear Centre (VNC) in Alameda County some 48 km east of San Francisco. The VBWR was the first NPP to deliver significant quantities of electricity to a public utility grid and the first NPP to receive an operating licence issued by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 17 November 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsnorthstar-completes-removal-and-shipment-of-vallecitos-boiling-water-reactor-11304924
The Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) and contractor UCOR (United Cleanup Oak Ridge) are now focusing on soil and groundwater remediation at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP), according to the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Environmental Management (EM). This is the final stage in a clean-up programme that has dismantled more than 500 ageing, contaminated structures.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 04 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsoak-ridge-tackles-groundwater-contamination-at-east-tennessee-technology-park-10811752
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has accepted an application from X-Energy Reactor Company subsidiary, TRISO-X, for a fuel fabrication facility which will use high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU). Anticipating the decision, TRISO-X, in October, broke ground and began construction of the facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The TRISO-X Fuel Fabrication Facility (TF3) is expected to create more than 400 jobs and attract investment of approximately $300 million. TF3 is set to be commissioned and operational by 2025.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 21 December 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-nrc-accepts-triso-xs-application-for-fuel-fabrication-facility-10451681
The Bulk Shielding Reactor - known as Building 3010 - is one of over a dozen research reactors built at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) since the 1950s, and is the first reactor at the Tennessee site to be demolished.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 17 September 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/First-ORNL-research-reactor-demolished
Work has begun on a protective enclosure for a former reactor on the US Department of Energy's Hanford site in Washington State. The K East Reactor is the seventh at the site to be placed in interim safe storage.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 25 June 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/New-cocoon-for-US-legacy-reactor
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) on 27 May awarded Idaho Environmental Coalition (IEC) and the Idaho Clean-up Project (ICP) an End State contract at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site near Idaho Falls.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 02 June 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsdoe-contract-awarded-for-clean-up-of-inl-site-8781577
The planned release of a draft record of decision (ROD) for a landfill facility at the Oak Ridge Site has been delayed until December.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 05 November 2019
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newslandfill-site-delayed-at-oak-ridge-but-cleanup-continues-7487642